All downhill from the PhD? The typical impact trajectory of US academic careers
Abstract
Within academia, mature researchers tend to be more senior, but do they also tend to write higher impact articles? This article assesses long-term publishing (16+ years) United States (US) researchers, contrasting them with shorter-term publishing researchers (1, 6 or 10 years). A long-term US researcher is operationalised as having a first Scopus-indexed journal article in exactly 2001 and one in 2016-2019, with US main affiliations in their...
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All downhill from the PhD? The typical impact trajectory of US academic careers
Published Date
May 23, 2020
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